Posted on 01/31/2010 9:11:21 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Ten years ago, I thought George Bush would be a conservative President. I guess JD and I have both learned a lot since then.
But this relates to the price of eggs exactly how?
That and the fact that you don't have a grade school level of competence in grammar or syntax. Posts with substantive facts wouldn't hurt your arguments either. Stick to what you know though. Insults, character assassination and false accusations.
Please be succinct and avoid pontifical conjecture.
In the interim, it is gym time for this 72 year old body.
But he has not been charged with crossing a legal line. He has never been charged, never subjected to a grand jury investigation, and no charges have ever been filed in the military under the UCMJ or in the civilian world. All we have it your words, what you believe. We know the anatomical equivalent of opinions is.
The gold standard is still provable truth, and your words just ain’t it.
They are indeed!
Don't forget to exercise that straw man you got there, too.
Am sure the many on FR who know me personally have
found your attempt of trying to be an adult amusing.
Accusing people of what you do yourself is is also
quite amusing.
Nice try.
Hypocrite.
It’s crossed my mind many times. Enlightening reading...(and this refers to Korea, but those same interrogators and indoctrination techinques were probably shipped to Vietnam as well.)
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/globalism/Congress.htm
Judge for yourselves. And to be fair to McCain, maybe not “brainwashed” as much as just “broken”. Remember, these are evil people, and there are not too many human beings who can stand up to REAL torture - mental, physical, etc, that the communists were masters of - as opposed to the Gitmo underwear-on-the-head so-called “torture”.
-Hale
“This document is copied from the Congressional record. The introductory information about the Congressional Committee has been placed at the end of this page.
See also Brainwashing and “Education Reform”
MR. HUNTER: “The Communist inquisitors in the POW camps depended first of all on a screening process to provide them with the men most likely to succumb to brainwashing. They picked the ones they figured would be most useful to them from among these. Cunning was all that was needed, along with a complete disregard for ethics; no special intelligence.... They have based their technique primarily on the complete abandonment of morality.”
“..As an example of the success the Communists are achieving, Mr. Hunter cited statistics on American prisoners of war in Korea.
“Never before in history had so many captured Americans gone to the aid of the enemy.
“For 2 years the services studied the records of the prisoners. What they found was not pretty.
“A total of 7,190 Americans were captured. Of these, 6,656 were Army troops, 263 were airmen, 231 Marines, 40 Navy men.
“In every war in American history some men have managed to escape. Korea was the exception.
“Roughly 1 of every 3 American prisoners collaborated with the Communists in some way, either as informants or as propagandists.
“In the 20 prison camps, 2, 730 of the 7,190 Americans died, the highest morality rate among prisoners in United States history. Many of them died unnecessarily. They either did not know how to take care of themselves of they just lay down and quit. Some sick or wounded died of malnutrition abandoned by their comrades.
“Discipline among Americans was almost nonexistent. It was a case of dog eat dog for food, cigarettes, blankets, clothes.
“For the first time in history, Americans — 21 of them — swallowed the enemy’s propaganda line and declined to return to their own people.”
Mr. Hunter declared that in the struggle with the Soviet Union, “we are losing so fast that unless we put a very drastic end to it, the question of who is winning will be academic in a decade.”
“People at lectures and elsewhere,” he declared, “frequently ask that of me, as if begging me to say that we are winning. I wish I could, but one only has to think of the position of the United States at the end of the war and compare it to now. We only have to look at the map of the world as it was when signed the peace on the battleship Missouri and compare it to the map now. Great areas with enormous populations have fallen into the hands of the Reds, not through any approximation to the democratic process, but through sheer power pressures, by psychological warfare.”
That is an interesting comment.
There are those who do and have done and there are those who haven’t and never will.
You haven’t lived until you have played with your own soul where one wrong step, maybe the next one, or a chute failure will end everything.
Life is not worth living unless you can hear your heart beating every now and then.
I’m not only retired from the military, I’m a disabled vet.
It’s all about gonads, either you have them or you just bow up and call others names. Every right I enjoy here in the good old USA I have earned. I didn’t leave it to others so I could sit back and talk about them when they were done. And you call me a Hypocrite.
Yep, I did.
You accept and promote the claims made against John Kerry because he has a D by his name. You ignore the claims made against John McCain because he has an R by his name. I don’t play the cult of personality game.
Non responsive.
Nonsensical.
You made a straw man argument and left the playing field. You'll have to do better than that.
Thank you for sharing your opinion. Considering that everyone has an opinion, what makes yours so special that you would want to share it?
Look in the mirror, young man. In the mental health field, this is called projection, the attributing to others what one sees in ones self.
I don't know what drugs you're smoking because I said this...
So it is OK to defame a decorated Vietnam war hero like John Kerry...
No thanks necessary, you played the woman card on this thread and so ended the discussion Go play with your iPad.
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